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How to balance activism with family expectations

I've been attending climate protests every Friday for months but my parents think I'm throwing away my education and threaten to cut off college funding if I get arrested.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Your commitment to justice conflicts with the very support system that makes your voice possible, creating a painful tension between principle and pragmatism.

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“Where Are You with Civil disobedience across traditions?”

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